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Review Warner Home Video / Lethal Weapon [Blu-ray] [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Danny Glover
  • Richard Donner
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 2006-11-20
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £25.99
Price: £13.10

Review Lethal Weapon [Blu-ray] [1987] / Warner Home Video:

Danny Glover, Mel Gibson

Review Warner Home Video / Revolver [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Mark Strong
  • Terence Maynard
  • Jason Statham
  • Ray Liotta
  • Derek Mak
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £18.99

Review Revolver [2005] / Warner Home Video:


Review Uca / James Stewart Westerns Collection - The Man From Laramie/Two Rode Together/Destry Rides Again/Shenandoah
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • James Lee Barrett
  • James Stewart
  • George Marshall
  • Doug McClure
  • Donald Crisp
  • John Ford
  • John War Eagle
  • Anthony Mann
Release date: 2008-01-14
Run time: 394 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.99

Review James Stewart Westerns Collection - The Man From Laramie/Two Rode Together/Destry Rides Again/Shenandoah / Uca:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Die Hard 2: Die Harder [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Renny Harlin
  • William Atherton
  • Reginald VelJohnson
  • Bruce Willis
  • Bonnie Bedelia
  • William Sadler
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Walter Wager
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.65

Review Die Hard 2: Die Harder [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places Bruce Willis's New York City cop character in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Complete John Wayne Collection
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 3288 min.
RRP: £149.99
Price: £57.75

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Casino Royale [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Campbell
  • Daniel Craig
  • Jeffrey Wright
  • Jesper Christensen
  • Judi Dench
  • Claudio Santamaria
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.49

Review Casino Royale [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Kings Of The Sun [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Shirley Ann Field
  • Richard Basehart
  • Yul Brynner
  • George Chakiris
  • J. Lee Thompson
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.07

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Review Passport / The Ed Wood Collection: A Salute to Incompetence
Actors & Directors
  • Edward D. Wood Jr.
  • Gregory Walcott
  • Tom Keene
  • William Morgan
  • Edward D. Wood Jr.
  • Mona McKinnon
  • Bela Lugosi
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 450 min.
Creator: Alex Gordon
Price: £4.37

Review The Ed Wood Collection: A Salute to Incompetence / Passport:


Review She the Ultimate Weapon / She- The Ultimate Weapon - Complete
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 395 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £8.42

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Review Dnc Entertainment / Home Of The Brave [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Christina Ricci
  • 50 Cent
  • Jessica Biel
  • Irwin Winkler
  • Samuel L. Jackson
Release date: 2008-02-25
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.98

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Review 4 Front Video / Street Fighter [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ming-Na
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Steven E. de Souza
  • Raul Julia
  • Kylie Minogue
  • Damian Chapa
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Jun Aida
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.74

Review Street Fighter [1995] / 4 Front Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Two Mules For Sister Sara [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Pancho Cordova
  • John Kelly
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Don Siegel
  • Ada Carrasco
  • Shirley Maclaine
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.75

Review Two Mules For Sister Sara [1970] / Universal Pictures UK:

In the cactus-studded Mexican backcountry of the 1860s, a surly drifter who could easily be mistaken for the Man with No Name becomes protector and lethal helpmate to a red-haired nun wanted by the French for aiding the Juarista revolutionaries. Essentially a two-character showcase for the newly stellar Clint Eastwood and what was beginning to seem the poststellar Shirley MacLaine (subbing for Elizabeth Taylor), this sardonic study in testy collaboration, mutual deception and distrust, and slightly creepy sexual attraction is highly rated by a fairly small number of critics-chiefly, one suspects, for the dual-auteur cachet of having been directed by Don Siegel and based on a story by Budd Boetticher. Others deem it an undersauced spaghetti Western and find that the stars grate on the viewer as well as each other. Cinematography by the great Gabriel Figueroa is some consolation, but. if only Boetticher had been allowed to direct. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review Turner Home Entertainment / Ben 10: The Complete Season 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tara Strong
  • Ulf Söhmisch
  • Meagan Smith
  • Paul Eiding
  • Claudia Schmidt
Release date: 2008-03-04
Run time: 299 min.
Creator: Steven T. Seagle
Price: £10.20

Review Ben 10: The Complete Season 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Blu-ray] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Shane West
  • Peta Wilson
  • Stephen Norrington
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Jason Flemyng
  • Sean Connery
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.49

Review The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Blu-ray] [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Sean Connery, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Max Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Hemmings

Review Warner Home Video / Superman The Movie [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Donner
  • Margot Kidder
  • Ned Beatty
  • Marlon Brando
  • Gene Hackman
  • Christopher Reeve
Release date: 2006-06-01
Run time: 146 min.
Creator: Tom Mankiewicz
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.00

Review Superman The Movie [1978] / Warner Home Video:

Modern blockbuster cinema came of age with the release of three huge science fiction/fantasy extravaganzas in the late 1970s. In 1978 Superman was the last of these, a gigantic hit unfairly overshadowed by Star Wars (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Christopher Reeve is completely convincing as both Superman and mild-mannered alter ego Clarke Kent, sparking real chemistry with Margot Kidder's fellow reporter Lois Lane. Very much a film of two halves, the opening tells the origin of Superman from the apocalyptic fate of Krypton to his nostalgically rendered boyhood in the mid-West. After a wonderful sequence introducing the Fortress of Solitude the film changes gear as the adult Clarke Kent arrives in Metropolis and Superman battles arch-nemesis Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). Though the tone becomes lighter and introduces comedy, Superman succeeds because Donner plays the titular character straight. From Marlon Brando's heavyweight cameo to the surprisingly wrenching finale, Superman unfolds as an epic modern myth, a spiritual fable for a secular age and a fantastic entertainment for the young at heart. With breathtaking production design, still special effects, gorgeous cinematography, thrilling set-pieces, wit, romance and John Williams' extraordinarily rich music score, Superman has the power to make you believe a man can fly. On the DVD: Superman is presented in an extended director's cut which adds eight minutes to the theatrical original. The restored material is so artfully integrated many viewers may not even notice, but it would have been nice to at least have the opportunity to watch the original via seamless branching. [+]
The sound has been remixed into extraordinarily powerful Dolby Digital 5. 1-the superb main title sequence is worth the price alone-and the anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 image is, except for some unavoidably grainy effects shots, pristine. The commentary by Richard Donner and writer Tom Mankiewicz reveals more about the background than all but the most dedicated fan will ever need to know, while film music aficionados will revel in the opportunity to listen to John Williams' score isolated in Dolby Digital 5. 1. On the second side of the disc are a eight alternate John Williams music cues, a selection of deleted scenes and the screen tests of a variety of would-be Lois Lanes, introduced and with optional commentary by casting director Lynn Stalmaster. These are fascinating, and show how right for the part Margot Kidder really was. A DVD-ROM only feature presents the storyboards plus various Web features, while the real highlight is a 90-minute documentary divided into three sections covering pre-production, filming and special effects. The picture quality on all the extras is very good indeed. An enthralling package, DVD doesn't get much better than this. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Pathe Distribution / Deathwatch [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Downey
  • Roman Horak
  • Laurence Fox
  • Rúaidhrí Conroy
  • Jamie Bell
  • Michael J. Bassett
Release date: 2003-06-16
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Michael Bischoff
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.72

Review Deathwatch [2002] / Pathe Distribution:

A small group of English soldiers find themselves in a labyrinth of abandoned German trenches in Deathwatch, a reworking of the classic British supernatural horror tale as a redemptive allegory amid the wider horror of the Great War. The very earth has had its fill of blood and this lost company may already be in hell: imagine the BBC TV film All the Kings Men (1999) crossed with Cube (1997), as realised by a young Ridley Scott. Only Charlie Shakespeare, an impressive Jamie Bell, is sufficiently innocent to realise the evil of the trenches is turning comrade against comrade, resulting in the gradually escalating carnage. Director Michael J Bassett effectively wracks the tension, aided greatly by a wonderfully decayed set design and story, which may meander, but builds to a chillingly surreal finale. Bell is given strong support from Matthew Rhys and a psychotic Andy Serkis, while Bassett has a fine eye for lighting and composition, as well as the ability to deliver some horrifically effective set-pieces. Taking itself much more seriously than its comparable contemporary, Dog Soldiers (2002), Deathwatch was shamefully overlooked in the cinemas but is surely a future cult classic just awaiting discovery. On the DVD:Deathwatch is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2. 35-1, and bar some compression artifacting in a few scenes looks fine. Likewise the Dolby Digital 5. 1 soundtrack is both atmospheric and powerful. [+]
The feature includes optional subtitles for hard of hearing. Extras begin with 15 minutes of interviews with six main cast members and Michael J Bassett. Also included are 14 minutes of filming footage and 16 minutes of alternate/extended/deleted scenes with text explanations as to why the material was changed or cut. There are three commentaries, with writer/director Bassett giving a serious account of realising his debut feature, then joining Jamie Bell and Lawrence Fox on a second commentary for more light hearted reflections. Finally Andy Serkis demonstrates his commitment to the project with an enjoyable reminiscence of his own. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Rising Sun [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Sean Connery
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Kevin Anderson
  • Philip Kaufman
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Harvey Keitel
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Michael Crichton
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.77

Review Rising Sun [1993] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for Rising Sun, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early 1990s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder-mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new LA headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Rising Sun is intriguing, if overlong. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Second Run / The Round Up [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabor Agardi
  • Janos Gorbe
  • Zoltan Latinovits
  • Andras Kozak
  • Tibor Molnar
  • Miklós Jancsó
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.82

Review The Round Up [1966] / Second Run:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek 5 - Final Frontier - Dvd [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • DeForest Kelley
  • William Shatner
  • Walter Koenig
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • James Doohan
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: David Loughery
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.84

Review Star Trek 5 - Final Frontier - Dvd [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Almost universally derided on its first release as the worst of the Star Trek movies to date, The Final Frontier may just have been the victim of bad press. Following in the wake of the massively successful fourth instalment The Voyage Home didn't help matters (notoriously, even-numbered entries are better), nor did having novice director and shameless egomaniac William Shatner at the helm. But if the story, conceived and co-written by Shatner, teeters dangerously on the verge of being corny at times, it redeems itself with enough thought-provoking scenes in the best tradition of the series, and a surprisingly original finale. Granted there are a few too many yawning plot holes along the way, and the general tone is over-earnest (despite some painfully slapstick comedy moments), but the interaction of the central trio (Kirk, Spock and McCoy) is often funny and genuinely insightful; while Laurence Luckinbill is a charismatic adversary as the renegade Vulcan Sybok. True, the rest of the cast scarcely get a look in, and the special effects betray serious budgetary restrictions, but with a standout score from Jerry Goldsmith and a meaty philosophical premise to play around with, Star Trek V looks a lot more substantial in retrospect. Certainly it's no worse than either Generations or Insurrection, the next "odd-numbered" entries in the series. On the DVD: This is a non-anamorphic widescreen (2. 35:1) print, with only two trailers as extra features. Quite frankly, Star Trek fans are being short-changed. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Good Bad And The Ugly [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Eli Wallach
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Sergio Leone
  • Aldo Giuffrè
  • Lee Van Cleef
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 161 min.
Creator: Luciano Vincenzoni
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.53

Review The Good Bad And The Ugly [1966] / MGM Entertainment:

Clint Eastwood ("the Man with No Name") is good, Lee Van Cleef (named Angel Eyes Sentenza here) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti Westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this DVD should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous. The DVD includes about a quarter-hour of footage not seen in the original release. - Amazon. com.

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